Authors and scholars from around the globe will gather at Yale University on Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30, for an international conference titled “Beyond French: New Languages for African Diasporic Literature.”“Beyond French” will include a...
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In celebration of the 375th anniversary of the English settlement of New Haven in 1638, the New Haven Museum will present the Reverend Stephen R. Davenport Symposium.On Saturday, April 13, four scholars of early American history will discuss the social...
Maurice Samuels, recently designated as the inaugural Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French, specializes in the literature and culture of 19th-century France as well as in Jewish studies. Maurice SamuelsSamuels, who directs the Yale Program for the Study...